3. How long has it taken the men to travel about 400 miles?
(a) About 10 days.
(b) 16 days.
(c) A little over a month.
(d) 4 days.

4. Where do the men spend their first night in France?
(a) Rosas.
(b) Cerbère.
(c) Calysos.
(d) Etiennen.

5. How is Bush injured?
(a) He is unscathed.
(b) He loses a foot.
(c) He loses one eye and his arm.
(d) He loses a foot and three fingers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship Hornblower loses?

2. Why is Hornblower self-conscious?

3. Where is Captain Horatio Hornblower languishing?

4. How does Brown feel at dinner?

5. How many years has Brown been in the English navy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Colonel Caillard come to Rosas prison? What is Caillard like as a man? How do you think Hornblower felt about the man?

2. How do Hornblower and Brown implement an escape?

3. How does the Spanish surgeon feel about Bush being transported and what does he do to mitigate the possible repercussions to Bush? What does this say about the surgeon's character?

4. How does the Spanish warden help Hornblower? Why do you think he would do that? Do you think that makes him a traitor to his country?

5. What does Hornblower say is the reason Bush should not be executed and what is Caillard's response? What does the response say to you about his character?

6. How do the Spanish treat Hornblower and what can he see from where he is? What do you think it says about his character that they would do this?

7. What are mostly in Hornblower's thoughts as he waits his future?

8. In what shape is Bush at the beginning of Chapter 5? What does the doctor tell Caillard? What does Hornblower say?

9. What do you think of the fact that of all the houses the men could have gone they happen to find one with occupants sympathetic to them?

10. What happens to the coach that stops travel for a while?

(see the answer keys)

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